As soon as the occupation matter came to an end, Lin Youde couldn't wait to start the Hokkaido hot spring tour that he had not been able to achieve in the previous time and space.
In the last time and space, Lin Youde was always envious of the super-rich people in various media. The wealthy men in American comics who wear super equipment to fight little monsters are certainly attractive, but Lin Youde is even more envious of those in Japanese comics who frequently dispatch huge maid legions.
of the super rich.
Thinking about the movie "Four-wheel drive brothers" back then, Lin Youde didn't envy Xiaohao's classmate who had the most powerful four-wheel drive. Instead, he envied Youjia, the rich brother and sister who had a quarrel with his sister and even dispatched M1A1 and B52. So after time travel, Lin Youde was able to
He has a special liking for showing off, even if he gets a bad reputation.
Look at this, Lin Youde went to Hokkaido to soak in a hot spring. As a result, more than 5,000 people including the maid team and the security force were dispatched, and navy warships were used to escort him. Wherever he went, as long as he was close to the sea, he was praised by the media.
The Hegemon, the most powerful battleship in the world, must be waiting in the bay, ready to respond to emergencies at any time.
Regarding this kind of behavior, no matter whether Du Qifeng or Badu strongly opposed it, Lin Youde had an explanation.
This is what he said: This is actually a strategy to win over the relatively backward Hokkaido. Do you think that such a big battle will not cost money when it comes to the local area? Isn’t that equivalent to providing financial support to the local people in disguise? Just give money directly.
You cannot make a place prosperous. Only by allowing money and goods to flow can you truly drive the economy of a place. Lin Youde's lavish display of entertainment plays the role of a "catalyst" and injects into the local economy.
vitality.
For this reason, Lin Youde also coined a new word called "stimulating domestic demand"...
Du Qifeng and Ba couldn't talk to Lin Youde, so they had no choice but to acquiesce to Lin Youde's exaggerated behavior. On the other hand, Chen Haihui led his wife to follow Lin Youde and the couple had a great time from beginning to end.
On August 15, Lin Youde ended his exaggerated and wasteful trip and returned to Hakodate.
**
"Ah, it's moving!" Lin Youde put his ear against his wife's bare belly and said excitedly, "This gentle force must be a girl."
Josephine touched her husband's head with a gentle look on her face.
"Dear, don't you Chinese all like boys?"
"Nonsense, girls are nice, girls are considerate." Lin Youde's ear was still pressed against his wife's belly, "Ah, it moved again."
"But..." Josephine's smile suddenly turned a little evil, "If it's a girl, my dear, you will have to give her to another man one day..."
"According to Western customs, a lord owns the breasts of all the girls in his territory..."
Josephine patted Lin Youde's head hard, and the crisp sound made Xundu behind her, who was concentrating on washing her hair, stop what he was doing for a moment and looked up to see what was going on.
"**This happened a long time ago. Even my grandfather didn't know about it until he watched "The Marriage of Figaro" when he was young."
"Is that so?" Lin Youde asked, pretending to be doubtful.
So Josephine patted him on the head again.
"Okay, I was wrong, I was wrong," Lin Youde begged for mercy and put his ear against his wife's belly again, "Oh, this sound is very powerful, it must be a boy!"
Josephine burst into laughter.
At this time, Xun poked his head out from behind Josephine, looked at Lin Youde and said in Japanese: "Well, I'm going to flush."
"It's time to flush." Lin Youde said to his wife.
"Well, I'm ready."
After Lin Youde signaled, Xun used a wooden bucket to pour clear warm water over Josephine's head. After the water took away the foam, Josephine's blond hair was so dazzling that it was impossible to look directly at it.
"Well, I want to soak again."….
After Josephine finished speaking, she stood up. Xun hurriedly stepped forward to help her, but Lin Youde beat her to it.
Lin Youde helped his wife to the hot spring and made a gesture of invitation.
"Thanks."
After helping his wife into the water, Lin Youde turned to Xun, who was still standing by the scrubbing sink. This former assassin had been the head maid next to Lin Youde for nine months. Even if she was naked, she would habitually put on the standard maid's stance.
Posture: The legs are slightly staggered forward and backward, the lower abdomen is slightly drawn in, the chest is raised, the hands are folded on the upper part of the pelvis, the arms are bent at 120 degrees, and there is enough space between the body and the body to open the puff sleeves of the maid uniform.
.
The goddesses usually practice martial arts, and their bodies are already very well-proportioned. Standing like this completely highlights the beauty of women's curves. What's even better is that people with the same standing posture look dignified, elegant and elegant when wearing maid uniforms.
Capable, she becomes sexy after taking off her maid uniform - well, a beautiful woman is sexy no matter what position she takes when she takes off her clothes, but this kind of state of "clearly showing off all her luster, but assuming a dignified posture in a formal occasion" is
The special allure it possesses is more lethal than scratching one's head.
However, Lin Youde now has the stomach and margin to put aside his evil thoughts and appreciate the beauty of the human body in this situation.
Not only that, his gaze also made Xun lower his head and his face turned slightly red.
"You've shown me so many times, and you're still shy..." Lin Youde approached the girl, reached out and gently stroked her hair, "Here, let me wash your hair."
"No need...I'll do it myself..."
If the resistance of Lin Youde's three recent ministers to him were graded, Xun was undoubtedly the weakest one - although his combat power may be the strongest among the three.
Because of this, Lin Youde had practiced many of the tricks that Josephine didn't agree with on his head maid, such as shaving and so on. Her smooth white tiger was Lin Youde's masterpiece.
But now, Lin Youde just wants to help her take care of her beautiful black hair.
He asked the girl to sit down on the small wooden stool, poured water over her, and then began to pour the herbal scented shampoo into her hands.
At this time, Xun spoke: "Later, let me help you rub your back."
"If you rub it with your chest, then I agree."
The girl screamed.
"That...that's too embarrassing...in front of my wife..."
"Honey," Lin Youde called to the hot spring in English, "come and rub my back later."
"That's too troublesome," Josephine's lazily voice came from the mist of the hot spring, "Let Xun do it."
"She said she didn't mind." Lin Youde happily relayed what his wife said. Xun didn't understand English, but he could hear the Roman pronunciation of his current name. The rest of the content was of course Lin Youde's nonsense.
"This... is good..."
The girl just agreed in a daze.
**
When Lin Youde came out of the hot spring with satisfaction, he was surprised to find that his entire staff was waiting outside.
"what happened?"
Du Qifeng looked at the others and finally decided to say: "Port report, a group of people claiming to be representatives of the Chinese United General Chamber of Commerce have just landed. The ship they are on is owned by the Steamship Merchants Bureau. According to the information we had a few days ago, this ship
It set out from Shanghai on August 1st, and was said to be transporting foreign cloth to North Korea, but somehow it ended up here."
Lin Youde curled his lips. There was an obvious flavor of conspiracy in Du Qifeng's words, which made Lin Youde involuntarily increase his vigilance.
"Who are the people coming ashore? Do they want to be able to scream loudly?"
"The leader is Zhang Jian."
**
That night, Lin Youde met with Zhang Jian.
The purpose of this famous industrialist in modern times is very simple and direct: Shanxi merchants, Shu merchants and Zhejiang merchants have joined forces to get a foothold in Japan. They hope to subscribe for shares in New Japan Steel and participate in all naval ministries.
Within the jurisdiction, the same investment conditions as those of Lin Ji are obtained....
This made Lin Youde quite unhappy.
However, Lin Ji had been consumed by the war against Russia, and now he had eaten Japan in one bite. He really couldn't digest it, and he had no energy left to deal with other things for the time being. If the three major business groups from the three continents really united to fight against Lin Ji, Lin Youde
There is really some lack of confidence.
What's more, Zhejiang merchants, Shanxi merchants, Shu merchants and Lin Ji merchants have been fighting for so many years, and they have learned a lot. Many of the advanced ideas adopted by Lin Youde have been copied by them, so their strength is much stronger than in the previous time and space. The three companies united
His financial resources are not much worse than Lin Ji at this time.
Moreover, Lin Youde also had to consider his business in the interior. Putting aside the Zhejiang merchants for now, Lin Ji was still very wary of the local influence of Shanxi merchants and Shu merchants - as the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake.
It can be said that the alliance of these three parties is one of the things that Lin Youde is most worried about. However, these three parties are quite contradictory to each other, so Lin Youde feels that they cannot unite.
But now this situation really happened. Lin Youde and Zhang Jian talked about it late at night. In the end, except for the reservation of shares in New Japan Steel, they almost fully accepted the proposal of the so-called joint chamber of commerce.
Lin Youde vaguely felt that someone was tricking him behind the scenes.
**
Huang Xing stood on the deserted outskirts of Dezhou City, his face still looking unbelievable.
At first, he was still worried that this was a trap set by Yuan Shikai, so he only brought a platoon of soldiers up to check out the situation. However, he found that the entire Beiyang Army in the peripheral positions of Texas had really withdrawn into the city, and the soldiers in several important villages and towns had actually withdrawn.
All the common people were forcibly moved into the city by the Beiyang Army.
In other words, the revolutionary army could pass by Dezhou City without anyone noticing, bypass the defense lines of the Gan Army and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and attack the city of Beijing directly.
Huang Xing stood on the small slope by the roadside, looking at the outline of Dezhou City in the distance, and was silent for a long time.
His sister Huang Xin fell from the sky and stood behind him.
"I flew sixty miles toward Beijing, but I didn't see the Beiyang Army troops." Huang Xin reported to her brother in a low voice, "In addition, I think the reason Tang Shaoyi said is not fabricated, but also reasonable. So I think,
this time……"
Huang Xing let out a long sigh, the expression on his face was very complicated.
"Since the Guangzhou Uprising, we revolutionaries have sacrificed many good brothers, but we have not been able to drive out the Tartars and restore China. Later, with the support of Japan, after several hard battles, we had a little foundation, and it seemed that we could finally see the dawn of revolutionary victory.
. But when we were ready to continue to shed blood, Tang Shaoyi came, so now we can so easily pass through the defense line guarded by Beiyang's elite troops and go straight to the capital... When we attacked Dezhou before, how many brothers were sacrificed.
I always feel that all those sacrifices were in vain."
"Brother," Huang Xin took a step forward and comforted her brother, "you should be happy that we can pass this pass without making any more sacrifices. The Republic is right in front of us. Lu Haodong and other seniors are under the underworld."
I can also rest in peace.”
"But, is the republic established in this way really the republic we pursue?"
Huang Xing looked back at his sister, and the girl shrugged.
"I don't know either. But if the plan goes well, at least the new country won't have to worry about being bullied by the big powers. Without external troubles, we can solve internal issues bit by bit, right, brother?"
"But, will Mr. Lin Youde honestly support the Republic? What if he wants to sit on his own, like the powerful men in ancient times who supported their troops and respected themselves? Yuan Shikai's proposal is essentially an alliance to jointly deal with Lin Youde.
, how is it different from the alliance formed by the six countries in the Warring States Period to resist the powerful Qin?”….
Huang Xing paused and glanced at his sister. Seeing that she had no intention of speaking, he continued: "If Lin Youde does not support the Republic, China will surely fall into a greater war: he wants to compete in the Central Plains, and that is us.
If we start a war with him, he has no interest in the Central Plains and continues to prefer overseas. How long can those of us who are gathered together because of him tolerate each other? I am afraid that in a few years it will turn into a multi-party melee situation..."
"In the end, Lin Youde took advantage of it." Huang Xin added calmly.
"Yeah, it's really unpleasant to feel like you don't have the right to choose."
**
On September 1, 1902, the revolutionary army of the Shandong Revolutionary Military Government attacked the city of Beijing at night. On that day, the Qing government sent a telegram to the commanders of the Shenji Battalion across the country, requesting the Shenji Battalion equipped with Yunzhou to come to Beijing immediately to rescue them.
But none of the five Shenji camps across the country equipped with Yunzhou responded.
On September 2, the Gansu Army returned to defense from the front line, but the train on which the troops were traveling was attacked by a bomb from unknown forces. The Gansu Army Commander Dong Fuxiang and the Governor's Imperial Envoy Ronglu were killed in the car. Immediately, the Gansu Army's command system fell into chaos and rescue was rushed.
Movement became extremely slow.
In the early morning of September 3rd, the revolutionary army invaded the Forbidden City. Huang Xing used a gun to force Emperor Guangxu to issue an edict to abdicate. On the same day, Cixi fled in a hurry under the cover of the guards, and once again fled to the Chengde Summer Resort. However, this time,
Waiting for her was Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army.
Yuan Shikai detained Cixi and then sent a telegram to support the Republic in the name of the War Department.